deskman
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The only San Francisco paper that did not run the pictures was the Chronicle, whose deskman could not be reached when the agency was peddling the prints.
From Time Magazine Archive
Any deskman in the top-ranking E Ring of the Pentagon knows that a new Secretary should appear tongue-tied by military terminology, respectful of military uniform, and humble at the talk of potential military destruction.
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He was a night-shift city deskman when his bosses shifted him to society a fortnight ago, set him up with an assistant and a telephone of his own.
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TN February 1927, Reporter James Thurber quit his $40-a-week job on the New York Evening Post to start work as a $100-a-week deskman on Harold Wallace Ross's The New Yorker.
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There his friend Corporal Macey subdued his broad Irish smile and ordered the deskman to "book him up."
From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Franck, Harry Alverson
Once so shorthanded that columnists had to wind computer tape and deskmen had to help set type, the staff now works almost normal shifts.
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The State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research wears a gloomy mien that irks Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the optimistic deskmen of the East Asian bureau.
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City deskmen were hoarse from answering readers' tips.
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There Alsop, who even then could write rings around veteran deskmen, rose like whipping cream above the city-room pack.
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Derek Almeida —————————————————————————————————————— Derek Almeida, besides being one of Goa's finest and most aesthetically-balanced deskmen, steals time to write humour columns whenever possible.
From Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various
